Scientists have found a star that spins so fast that it can almost complete a full rotation by the time it takes you to finish reading this episode description.

What would you do if you were in charge of a billion-dollar satellite that was spinning out of control? In 1998, NASA and ESA engineers had to solve this exact problem. How did they avert this disaster?

Have you ever been on a ride on the playground that made you really dizzy, like a merry-go-round? Have you ever wondered where that weird, spinning sensation comes from? Jessi and Squeaks have the answer!

It’s amazing how professional baseball players can throw very fast curveballs, but do you know how do curveballs change direction in midair?

Thanks to X-ray telescopes, scientists in the 1970s found the first real evidence that black holes actually existed, and astronomer Andrew Fabian has used X-ray research to unlock incredible mysteries ever since, including a giant sound...

It seems the more we learn about black holes, the more there is to find out. In this case, what in the universe could have put one on its side?

People have suspected that Earth rotates for thousands of years, but how did we first prove it?

In this video Paul Andersen explains how the angular momentum of an object if a product of the rotational inertia and the angular velocity. The rotational inertia depends on the mass, radius and shape of the rotating objects. A sample...

Why does the Earth spin? Does a basketball falling from a spinning merry-go-round fall in a curve, as it appears to, or in a straight line? How can speed be manipulated while spinning? In short, why is the spinning motion so special?...

How different would things be if Earth had always rotated in the opposite direction?

After a long day working on the particle accelerator, you and your friends head to the arcade to unwind. The lights go out for a second, and when they come back, there before you gleams a foosball table. Always game, you insert your...

While there is a little wiggle room, the planets in our solar system really are orbiting on mostly the same level. Why do they do that?

An oblate spheroid is a special case of an ellipsoid where two of the semi-principal axes are the same size.

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build...

In the third act of "Swan Lake", the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endless series of turns, bobbing up and down on one pointed foot and spinning around and around and around thirty-two times. How is this move - which is called a...

If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily?

In this video Paul Andersen explains how a rotating system will have several quantities; including torque, angular velocity, angular acceleration and angular momentum. Each of these quantities have a vector property that can be...

Tidal Locking - Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon

Learning to throw a boomerang properly takes a lot of practice. And aerodynamics.

We've seen this done in movies right? Well, why don't spaceships have this technology?

In this video Paul Andersen explains rotating object have angular momentum. The angular momentum of a point object is the product of the distant from the center of rotation and the linear momentum. The angular momentum of an extended...